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  • Paintings From the Lupins Colour Scheme

    Paintings From the Lupins Colour Scheme

    June 29, 2024June 24, 2025 Blog, Colour Palettes, Creative Invitations, Nature and Seasons
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    Last week I shared a tiny weaving I made using embroidery thread, with a piece of cardboard as a loom. I used colours from a colour scheme I made from a photo of some lupins. The colours are so beautiful, I still feel like I haven’t exhausted them!…

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  • How to Make Fabric Flowers With a Clover Flower Maker

    How to Make Fabric Flowers With a Clover Flower Maker

    March 12, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    This post contains affiliate links. Sometimes the best kind of project is a little thing you can work on for a few minutes, then put down again and come back to later. It can feel like a treat to have a little tray with some bits and pieces…

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    How To Make Appliqued Roses

    July 10, 2021June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    Inspiration can be found in all sorts of places, and the inspiration for these appliqued roses came from some paper doilies I bought from Poundland years ago! Usually the approach here would be to draw the same thing over and over again until it becomes easy. By doing…

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    Easy DIY Felt Flower Wreath

    February 8, 2018September 22, 2023 Blog
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    Easy DIY Felt Flower Wreath Since my Christmas wreath came down, my poor front door has been left without a wreath. I’ve got plans to cheer it up by painting it a pretty shade of green, but the weather’s been either too cold or too wet! Until spring…

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    How To Make Felt Poinsettias

    November 30, 2017September 22, 2023 Blog
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    How To Make Felt Poinsettias A splash of red is always lovely at Christmas.Β Poinsettias offer that splash of red, but unfortunately for any plants that enter my house, the chances of them lasting more than a week are slim. Thankfully there is an alternative for those of us…

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    How to Sew a Laptop Sleeve

    June 24, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Sew a Laptop Sleeve I like my stuff pretty. Not over the top pretty, everything pink and endless ruffles. But I do like pretty things, fabric boxes, cushions that I’ve made myself and I wear dresses for the school run. Laptops generally are not pretty. Neither…

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A colour palette for October πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚πŸ§‘ Mak A colour palette for October πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚πŸ§‘

Making a colour palette is one of my favourite creative invitations. October is an especially good month with all its lovely colours, tthe leaves of course, and also the berries in the hedgerows, the rosehips, the sweet chestnuts, the conkers and the acorns. The light is beautifully golden, but the grey misty days are lovely too.

Mine is based on the colours of the leaves and things I collected, but making a colour palette doesn't have to look like this! You could use acrylics or gouache, coloured pencils, scraps of fabric, yarn or thread. You could use other objects that make you think of autumn colours, or a photo.

If I was to make another, I would definitely include grey for the misty days. What do you think?

#creativelife #colourpaletteforoctober #imspiredbynature #simplecreativity #wildblossomlife
On a hunt for autumn colours! πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚πŸ§‘ Th On a hunt for autumn colours! πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚πŸ§‘

There's lots of red, orange and brown. In one gorgeous October orange tree I saw a happy crow (I was standing at a bus stop at the time, proof that you really don't need to go anywhere special to find inspiration!).

I spotted a patch of hawthorn on the way to the post office that had beautiful red leaves as well as red berries.

Shades of orange and brown are echoed in old walls and tiled roofs.

On a very damp and foggy morning, I couldn't see more than a few metres ahead of me, which made me much more aware if what I could see. The long grasses are brown and yellow now.

And I've never realised before that my kettle is October orange!

#creativelife #inspirationiseverywhere
#autumn #octobercolours #taketimetonotice
October πŸπŸ‚πŸŒ°πŸ§‘ What I'm noticing: Some October πŸπŸ‚πŸŒ°πŸ§‘

What I'm noticing:

Some of the trees are still quite green, but there is yellow, red and brown as well.

My favourite trees outside the shop in the village are beautiful 🍁

There are lots of berries in the hedgerows and masses of rosehips. They seem to be ready earlier this year. I don't remember that many roses in June! 

I can smell wood smoke and people's coal fires. It's not that cold but a fire is always nice πŸ”₯

The evenings are really drawing in now. It's dark by the time I've finished the washing up.

The stars are so bright! And I can see my old friends Orion, Cassiopeia and the Great Bear.

Lots of people have autumn wreaths on their doors, including me πŸ₯° it seems like more of an American thing but I'm glad it's becoming a thing here too. 

The last picture is of my silly cat. I think she might be the reason why one of the little pumpkins is no longer on that string of lights, but who could resist that furry little face? 😍

#autumn #creativelife #wildblossomlife ##slowingdownabit
#getoutside #norfolkfens
Autumn is painting this tree red πŸπŸ’– What co Autumn is painting this tree red πŸπŸ’–

What colours are you noticing at the moment?

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#wildblossomlife #october #autumncolours #slowdownandlook
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